So, Red Nose Day, What’s It All About?
(Official video. It won't embed, but it's a brilliant encapsulation of what Red Nose Day is, and the general feel of the whole thing. You spend a whole evening alternating between laughing and crying. And then you donate as much money as you can. Oh and during the day you might have participated in some fund raising event, and your children went to school dressed in red (or some kind of fun costume), wearing their red noses, bearing money to give to the good cause. It is, literally, a nationwide event.)
And here's another vid, which contains a lot of sobering and harrowing facts about the world we live in (plus rays of sunshine and hope):
Half of the world's children live in poverty. Every three seconds a child dies. On Red Nose Day, we get introduced some of those children, and I am still haunted, and I still remember appeals from years past.
( About Doctor Who )
HERE IS WHERE YOU DONATE!
(ETA: Please feel free to link to this post.)
